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SummaryBruno Mars has secured the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 with his first studio album in a decade, The Romantic, moving 186,000 equivalent album unitsGorillaz debuted at No. 7 with The Mountain, their ninth studio album, which earned 53,000 unitsBLACKPINK returned to the top 10 as their third EP, DEADLINE, opened at No. 8 with 52,000 unitsBruno Mars is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 with The Romantic, his first studio album in over a decade.His new album earns a total of 186,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 93,500 in album sales, 90,500 in streaming equivalent album units (93.95 million on-demand streams of the songs) and 2,000 in track equivalent album units. This marks Mars’ second No. 1 following Unorthodox Jukebox in 2013 and his fifth top 10 ...

The moment we've all been manifesting is here at last; in a long-overdue collaborative venture, Day 1 creative partners, tourmates, and, above all, actual friends Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE are finally dropping a project together.It's not just any old project, and it's surely not a scrapping together of leftover studio sessions or album outtakes, but rather, it's a fully fleshed out, 33-track, double-disc venture dubbed POMPEII/ULTILITY, that comes dialed-in even further with full production from NYC’s producer supercollective SURF GANG.Harrison, one of SURF GANG’s founding producers alongside evilgiane and Eera, served as a key catalyst in bringing the long-time-coming collab release to fruition, handling the majority of production on the two-part LP, which features various songs and snippe...

If you’re more than familiar with the pop star’s origins, it’s not surprising that Harry Styles ascended to the level of superstardom that he now occupies. He shot for the moon and reached the stars instead — because the thing about the 32-year-old British musician is that he possesses something that can’t go out of style: a true appreciation of and a burning passion for musical experimentation.Fans witnessed this on his self-titled debut album in the form of guitar riffs reminiscent of '60s rock bands, or on his third project, Harry’s House, which opened up his sonic universe to folk and funk influences. But for his fourth studio album, we observe Styles shed past versions of himself — the pop mogul that we know, but also the man behind the music. He wrapped Love on Tour in 2023, after an...